The toll of 6 months of the tragedy of the Rohingya: 700 thousand refugees and about 7 thousand dead
Arakan News Agency Sunday marks the 6-month anniversary of the start of the Rohingya refugee crisis, the worst since the Vietnam War. Some 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled a violent campaign led by Myanmar’s Buddhist majority army since August 25. Refugees now live in camps in neighboring Bangladesh. The United Nations and international organizations have […]
Massacre in Myanmar
Arakan News Agency On Sept. 2, Buddhist villagers and Myanmar troops killed 10 Rohingya men in Myanmar’s restive Arakan state. Reuters uncovered the massacre and has pieced together how it unfolded. During the reporting of this article, two Reuters journalists were arrested by Myanmar police. Bound together, the 10 Rohingya Muslim captives watched their Buddhist […]